After starting the multipathd daemon, the mpathN device is created in /dev/mapper: # systemctl start multipathd

# ls /dev/mapper/mpatha
/dev/mapper/mpatha

Use the /dev/mapper/mpatha name when creating a partition, when creating an LVM physical volume, and when making and mounting a file system. If one of the network interfaces fails on the initiator, I/O continues through the remaining active interface.